re: #574 HappyWarrior

I think Trump and many Americans don’t get why Europeans are much more adverse to war than we are. Oh it’s easy to call the French pussies but when you can talk to people who have living memories of military occupations, it’s different. We’re blessed that we haven’t had a foreign Army in the lower 48 since 1812 but we’re also sort of cursed in a way too since it ruins our perspective.

Not only that, but if you run the French casualty numbers from the WWII Battle of France, you can see that France was taking casualties at almost the same rate (day to day) that they’d taken in WWI.

And it’s certainly no secret that WWI damn near bled France white.